In Russia want to create offshore companies to “sanctions” of the oligarchs

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev confirmed plans to create offshore for the oligarchs, which came under US sanctions, reports citing .

According to him, special areas with special legal status and a special tax regime will be in the Primorye territory and the Kaliningrad region — on the Islands of Russian and October.

In addition, Medvedev added that the best practices of advanced legal regulation, tested in experimental areas, can spread to the Russian economy as a whole.

We will remind, on April 6, the United States imposed sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs, 17 top officials and 12 Russian companies. The sanctions include the freezing of assets. The Minister of Finance Steven Mnuchin explained the new sanctions that the Russian oligarchs and elites benefit from the activities of the authorities of the Russian Federation, which are subversive and destructive policies around the world, including continues to occupy the Crimea and provoking violence in Eastern Ukraine.